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    • U

      University of Maryland, College Park

      Usable Security

      Skills you'll gain: Human Factors (Security), Usability, Human Computer Interaction, Authentications, Interaction Design, Usability Testing, Information Privacy, Personally Identifiable Information, Security Engineering, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Cybersecurity, User Interface (UI) Design, User Centered Design, Multi-Factor Authentication, Design

      4.6
      Rating, 4.6 out of 5 stars
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      3.3K reviews

      Mixed · Course · 1 - 3 Months

    • Status: Free Trial
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      Packt

      CISSP Certified Information Systems Security Professional

      Skills you'll gain: Identity and Access Management, Computer Security Incident Management, Security Management, Endpoint Security, Intrusion Detection and Prevention, Network Architecture, Network Security, Computer Networking, Patch Management, User Provisioning, Information Systems Security, General Networking, Penetration Testing, DevSecOps, Software Development Life Cycle, Vulnerability Scanning, Data Management, Threat Management, Cybersecurity, Cryptography

      4.7
      Rating, 4.7 out of 5 stars
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      98 reviews

      Beginner · Specialization · 3 - 6 Months

    • Status: Free Trial
      Free Trial
      G

      Google Cloud

      Preparing for Google Cloud Certification: Cloud DevOps Engineer

      Skills you'll gain: Prompt Engineering, Kubernetes, Application Performance Management, Site Reliability Engineering, Cloud Infrastructure, Google Cloud Platform, Microservices, Identity and Access Management, Generative AI, Cloud Applications, Cloud Services, CI/CD, Cloud Computing, System Monitoring, Containerization, Cloud Security, Application Deployment, Culture Transformation, Event Monitoring, Service Level

      4.7
      Rating, 4.7 out of 5 stars
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      54K reviews

      Beginner · Professional Certificate · 3 - 6 Months

    • Status: Free Trial
      Free Trial
      I
      I

      Multiple educators

      IBM and ISC2 Cybersecurity Specialist

      Skills you'll gain: Security Controls, Software Development Life Cycle, Network Security, Incident Response, Penetration Testing, Computer Security Incident Management, Information Assurance, Cloud Computing Architecture, Cybersecurity, Cyber Governance, Computing Platforms, Computer Hardware, Cloud Computing, Cloud Security, Data Security, Authorization (Computing), Data Storage, Application Security, Information Technology, Cryptography

      4.7
      Rating, 4.7 out of 5 stars
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      14K reviews

      Beginner · Professional Certificate · 3 - 6 Months

    • Status: Free Trial
      Free Trial
      I

      IBM

      Python for Data Science, AI & Development

      Skills you'll gain: Jupyter, Web Scraping, Python Programming, Data Collection, Object Oriented Programming (OOP), Pandas (Python Package), Programming Principles, Data Structures, NumPy, Data Processing, Data Manipulation, Application Programming Interface (API), Data Import/Export, Computer Programming, Data Analysis

      4.6
      Rating, 4.6 out of 5 stars
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      42K reviews

      Beginner · Course · 1 - 3 Months

    • Status: Free Trial
      Free Trial
      U

      University of Pennsylvania

      Finance & Quantitative Modeling for Analysts

      Skills you'll gain: Finance, Capital Budgeting, Financial Data, Return On Investment, Financial Reporting, Financial Statement Analysis, Risk Modeling, Mathematical Modeling, Regression Analysis, Predictive Modeling, Business Modeling, Spreadsheet Software, Financial Analysis, Cash Flows, Financial Modeling, Balance Sheet, Predictive Analytics, Google Sheets, Microsoft Excel, Corporate Finance

      4.5
      Rating, 4.5 out of 5 stars
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      17K reviews

      Beginner · Specialization · 3 - 6 Months

    • Status: Free Trial
      Free Trial
      G

      Google

      Crash Course on Python

      Skills you'll gain: Python Programming, Programming Principles, Computer Programming, Algorithms, Data Structures, Problem Management, Debugging, Automation

      4.8
      Rating, 4.8 out of 5 stars
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      40K reviews

      Beginner · Course · 1 - 3 Months

    • Status: Free Trial
      Free Trial
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      IBM

      IBM Business Intelligence (BI) Analyst

      Skills you'll gain: Dashboard, Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing, Data Visualization, SQL, Data Storytelling, IBM DB2, Pivot Tables And Charts, Descriptive Statistics, Database Design, MySQL, Star Schema, Relational Databases, Business Analytics, Data Analysis, Data Cleansing, Tableau Software, Data Mining, Data Wrangling, Data Collection

      4.7
      Rating, 4.7 out of 5 stars
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      15K reviews

      Beginner · Professional Certificate · 3 - 6 Months

    • Status: Free Trial
      Free Trial
      J

      Johns Hopkins University

      Data Science: Foundations using R

      Skills you'll gain: Rmarkdown, Exploratory Data Analysis, Plot (Graphics), Knitr, R Programming, Data Manipulation, Statistical Visualization, Data Science, Data Visualization Software, Data Cleansing, Ggplot2, MySQL, Dimensionality Reduction, Software Installation, Version Control, Data Analysis, Data Sharing, Statistical Programming, GitHub, Machine Learning

      4.6
      Rating, 4.6 out of 5 stars
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      48K reviews

      Beginner · Specialization · 3 - 6 Months

    • Status: Free Trial
      Free Trial
      G

      Google Cloud

      Preparing for Google Cloud Certification: Cloud Network Engineer

      Skills you'll gain: Prompt Engineering, Application Performance Management, Distributed Denial-Of-Service (DDoS) Attacks, Cloud Infrastructure, Kubernetes, Google Cloud Platform, Load Balancing, Firewall, Network Performance Management, Cloud Computing Architecture, Generative AI, Network Security, Cloud Applications, Network Architecture, Containerization, Identity and Access Management, Network Monitoring, Network Routing, Virtual Private Networks (VPN), Network Troubleshooting

      4.7
      Rating, 4.7 out of 5 stars
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      50K reviews

      Intermediate · Professional Certificate · 3 - 6 Months

    • Status: Free Trial
      Free Trial
      G

      Google Cloud

      Preparing for Google Cloud Certification: Cloud Developer

      Skills you'll gain: Cloud Applications, Prompt Engineering, Kubernetes, Cloud Infrastructure, Google Cloud Platform, Containerization, CI/CD, Application Deployment, Docker (Software), Microservices, Serverless Computing, Cloud Development, Generative AI, Cloud API, Identity and Access Management, Cloud Services, Application Development, Cloud Computing, Cloud Storage, Debugging

      4.7
      Rating, 4.7 out of 5 stars
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      49K reviews

      Intermediate · Professional Certificate · 3 - 6 Months

    • Status: New
      New
      Status: Free Trial
      Free Trial
      G

      Google

      Google AI Essentials

      Skills you'll gain: Prompt Engineering, Generative AI, Large Language Modeling, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML), Productivity Software, Workforce Development, Applied Machine Learning, Business Solutions, Organizational Strategy, Business Process Automation, Social Studies, Innovation, Data Collection, Automation, Data Security, Human Machine Interfaces, Forecasting, Emerging Technologies, Analysis, Critical Thinking

      4.8
      Rating, 4.8 out of 5 stars
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      6.7K reviews

      Beginner · Specialization · 1 - 3 Months

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    In summary, here are 10 of our most popular software security courses

    • Usable Security: University of Maryland, College Park
    • CISSP Certified Information Systems Security Professional: Packt
    • Preparing for Google Cloud Certification: Cloud DevOps Engineer: Google Cloud
    • IBM and ISC2 Cybersecurity Specialist: ISC2
    • Python for Data Science, AI & Development: IBM
    • Finance & Quantitative Modeling for Analysts: University of Pennsylvania
    • Crash Course on Python: Google
    • IBM Business Intelligence (BI) Analyst: IBM
    • Data Science: Foundations using R: Johns Hopkins University
    • Preparing for Google Cloud Certification: Cloud Network Engineer: Google Cloud

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